Mike Mason
Mike Mason
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And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.
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We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.
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Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe.
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Take away material prosperity; take away emotional highs; take away miracles and healing; take away fellowship with other believers; take away church; take away all opportunity for service; take away assurance of salvation; take away the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit... Yes! Take it all, all, far, far away. And what is left? Tragically, for many believers there would be nothing left. For does our faith really go that deep? Or do we, in the final analysis, have a cross-less Christianity?
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True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.
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It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.
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So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.
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To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.
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The very fact that faith looks to a power beyond itself means that it is continually subject to loss of control. So if you're looking to get control of all your problems, forget Christianity. If you're looking for success, happiness, or freedom from pain, forget Christ. The way of Christ is the cross, and the cross spells weakness, poverty, failure, death.
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Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply a secular term for the will of God, and coincidence for His grace.
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There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.
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He's very quick, makes excellent fakes, and is just as scary if he runs the ball as he is throwing the ball. He can be on the run and still make a perfect pass.
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Our linebackers are strong, just terrific. Martin is one of the best middle linebackers around. He has a smell for the ball, reads offenses real well and is extremely fast.
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come up with the cash to run against him.